Archive: 08/2016
2016-08-01
- SEP candidate for West Virginia House District 16 files petitions
- This week in history: August 1-7
- Erdogan accuses US of supporting failed coup in Turkey
- Elvis, Scotty and Bill: In memory of guitar legend Scotty Moore
- Canadian police “manufactured” terror plot to ensnare couple
- Vote against war! Vote PSG!
- Democratic Party’s anti-Putin rhetoric prepares escalation of Syrian War
- New Zealand’s Maori nationalist parties discuss bloc for 2017 election
- Australian youth and workers speak out against torture of juvenile prisoners
- Slowdown in US, global economy
- Farm equipment giant John Deere lays off 120 workers as sales plummet
- UK Labour Party coup plotters make public their split preparations
- Clinton campaign appeals to Republicans and the military
- Growing opposition in Berlin to exorbitant rents and evictions
- Protests denounce violent abuses in Australian juvenile jails
2016-08-02
- First cases of mosquito-contracted Zika on US mainland reported in Florida
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- HBO’s Veep: Lots of profanity, but not enough of what’s truly ugly
- Russian helicopter shot down in Syria as battle rages over Aleppo
- After Democrats’ celebration of militarism, US warplanes bomb Libya
- Democrats seize on Khan-Trump conflict to woo right-wing support
- Israel adopts powers to suspend members of parliament
- UK delays nuclear plant deal signed with France and China
- German Labour Court declares air traffic controllers strike illegal
- Manufacturing slows in Europe and Japan
- Australian government appoints indigenous bureaucrat to juvenile detention inquiry
- China issues warning to Australia over South China Sea
- Adama Traoré’s autopsy undermines French police’s account of his death
2016-08-03
- UK: Weymouth and Bridport bus drivers escalate strike action
- US courts strike down “Voter ID” laws in four states
- New chemical weapons claims pose threat of US escalation of Syrian war
- State of emergency declared in Maryland suburb after record-breaking flooding kills two
- After the conventions, Democrats attack Trump from the right
- New Zealand rail union pushes pro-company collective agreement
- Michigan Obamacare insurers request 17 percent premium hikes
- More airstrikes in new US war in Libya
- US homeownership rate falls to lowest level in 51 years
- The New York Times’ chief military correspondent met secretly with State Department in 2010 to bury Iraq War Logs
- The anti-scientific character of “race” as a concept
- Massive police operation for pro-Erdogan demonstration in Cologne
- Spain: Catalan regional parliament votes next steps to independence
- Australian Workers Union pushes pay cuts for Arrium employees
2016-08-04
- Stop the war drive in Syria and Libya! Workers of the world unite against war!
- US Republican presidential campaign in crisis
- Sri Lankan opposition intensifies anti-government campaign
- UK law firm boasts blocking support to disadvantaged children
- Baltimore County police shoot, kill young mother
- Kerry backs Duterte’s murderous anti-drug campaign: “Placing a cheapness on the lives of Orientals”
- New Zealand ‘Rich List’ dominated by property speculators
- Whistle-blower Chelsea Manning: “I became very, very sad” during torture
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns for ballot status in Louisiana
- British RAF carry out airstrikes in Mosul, Iraq
- India ships food after mass protests by starving Indian workers in Saudi Arabia
- The Green Party platform: Reformist politics in the service of imperialism
- A comment on the recent San Diego Comic-Con International
- Systemic abuses in Australia’s juvenile prisons: The class issues
2016-08-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New York Times covers up Obama administration’s role in Turkish coup
- Owners announce plan to close Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort next month
- All Quiet on the Western Front: A generation haunted by war
- Amnesty report denounces Australia’s “cruel” refugee regime on Nauru
- RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China
- Rio Olympics overshadowed by social crisis
- British government to escalate its Middle East intervention
- What is behind the campaign against Erdogan?
- Bank of England announces record rate cut in windfall for financial markets
- Clinton steps up right-wing appeal to Republicans and billionaires
- New powers for secret services in Bavaria
- Knife attack in London prompts massive police operation
- Hardship grows in Alberta as oil industry contracts
2016-08-06
- Senate result underscores Australian government’s instability
- Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic
- Why the CIA is for Hillary Clinton
- India and US deepen strategic collaboration in Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Clinton, Obama tout tepid US jobs report
- Japan’s new cabinet line-up to promote remilitarisation
- International Socialist Organization calls for Greens to support US-backed “revolution” in Syria
- UK: Labour leader Corbyn calls debate with coup plotter Owen Smith “comradely”
- Lady Dynamite and other Netflix comedies
- Chicago police warn of unrest after murder of teen
- German defence minister announces domestic use of Armed Forces
- Refugees confront inhumane conditions at mass accommodation centres in Berlin
- One million Indian bank workers strike against privatisation
2016-08-08
- More than 500 UK employers and charities benefited from use of free forced labour
- This week in history: August 8-14
- Turkish regime imprisons and harasses artists, journalists and academics after coup attempt
- As Clinton seeks support from Republicans, Sanders hails her role in the “political revolution”
- A year in the plight of Berlin’s refugees
- Stop the police killings! Unite workers and youth of every race and nationality!
- Rio 2016: The “Olympic ideal” and the reality of capitalism
- US government lawsuit undermines Malaysian prime minister
- South Korean Democrats posture as opponents of US anti-ballistic missile system
- Low-income retirees in the Detroit-area face abysmal housing conditions
- UK National Health Service forced to the brink of financial collapse
- German “left” journalist Jakob Augstein comes out as a right-winger
- Global economic stagnation fuels financial instability
- Obama’s drone-missile machinery of murder
- Anti-Corbyn plotters make second Brexit vote centre of UK Labour leadership contest
- New York City police commissioner Bratton resigns
- Report documents human rights violations in Australian refugee camps
2016-08-09
- West Virginia coal miner killed in explosion
- Millions demonstrate throughout Turkey against July 15 coup attempt
- UK inquiry refuses to investigate police spying on Workers Revolutionary Party
- Thai constitutional referendum entrenches military dictatorship
- Southern rail conductors begin longest UK rail strike in 50 years
- Police seek to cover up murder of 20-year-old man in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- The national security state and the US elections
- Rio Olympics: Reviving the methods of dictatorship
- Australia: Top police claim no operational role in Sydney siege
- UK High Court rejects ban on 130,000 Labour members voting in leadership contest
- Green Party convention: Left rhetoric in the service of pro-capitalist politics
- Louisiana sheriff initiates witch-hunt against author of anti-corruption blog
- Massive Delta Airlines computer failure creates worldwide havoc
- Washington escalates covert backing for Al Qaeda militias in Aleppo
2016-08-10
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Unsafe levels of carcinogenic chemicals found in drinking water of 6 million Americans
- The United Steelworkers, economic nationalism and the US drive to war
- Australian government faces “test” over Chinese bid for electricity grid
- Trump speech in Detroit: Tax cuts for the wealthy combined with nationalist demagogy
- Suicide Squad: The latest comic book film
- Atlantic Council proposes to develop Poland as a stronghold for war with Russia
- Peru: Kuczynksi takes office along with right wing pro-business cabinet
- The battle for Aleppo and the hypocrisy of US war propaganda
- US maternal death rate soars by 27 percent since 2000
- Once again on Owen Jones and the coup against UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
- Japanese emperor cautiously resists constitutional change
- Growing poverty leads to vast increase in UK food bank demand
- Erdogan and Putin meet in St. Petersburg
- Canada: Refugees mount hunger strike to protest indefinite detention
- Unions seek to block struggle against education cuts in Boone County, West Virginia
- Tragic death of baby in Australian hospital
- Ten-year-old boy killed, three girls injured in separate US amusement park accidents
2016-08-11
- US sells battle tanks to Saudi Arabia as it renews assault on Yemen
- Australia’s “education revolution” sends university staff casualisation soaring
- Democrats, media seize on Trump pro-gun comment to step up right-wing campaign
- Sleeping Giant: Deception and lies about the “new” working class
- Vietnam bases long-range rocket launchers in South China Sea
- Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos travels to China to conduct negotiations
- The slump in US productivity: Another symptom of capitalist crisis
- US backs deployment of UN military unit for offensive operations in South Sudan
- UK: Hinkley Point nuclear plant delay provokes angry response from China
- What CIA Director Michael Hayden told President-Elect Barack Obama
- German Social Democratic Party leader calls for strengthening of federal police
- New emails shed further light on Hillary Clinton’s corruption as secretary of state
- Chicago Public Schools announces 1,000 layoffs, threatens new cuts
- BBC propagandises in favour of pro-European Union, anti-Corbyn putsch
- Justice Department investigation of Baltimore police finds rampant abuse
2016-08-12
- Mosquitoes infect pregnant Florida woman with Zika
- WikiLeaks offers $20,000 reward over murder of DNC staffer linked to email leak
- Tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine after terrorist provocation
- Union calls off UK rail strikes
- The Justice Department’s whitewash of police violence in Baltimore, Maryland
- US military prepares new offensives in Syria and Iraq
- Wall Street celebrates mass layoffs by Macy’s
- Police violence in Los Angeles continues unabated
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Illinois officials prepare all-out assault on state workers
- US price of EpiPen for allergic reactions skyrockets
- German deportations rise sharply in the first half of 2016
- UK Court of Appeal to rule on exclusion of Labour Party members from leadership ballot
- “Socialist Convergence” meets to prepare a new trap for the working class
- Café Society: Woody Allen’s love letter to the wealthy and famous
- Brazilian Senate votes to proceed with trial of Workers Party president
- Australian central bank chief insists on “difficult” budget cuts
2016-08-13
- As Canadian auto talks begin, Unifor promotes nationalism and corporatism
- Australian government blocks Chinese bids for electricity grid
- Warnings from Australian political establishment about Donald Trump
- Tax return places Clintons in the top 0.02 percent of Americans
- Sri Lankan government imposes IMF privatisation demands
- The provocation in Crimea and the threat of world war
- Gas explosion at Maryland apartment complex kills two, injures dozens
- US Special Forces coordinating operations in Libya
- How Germany’s pseudo-lefts support the Left Party’s right-wing politics
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- BHS scandal in the UK: The real face of capitalism
- German interior minister announces tightening of security and asylum laws
- Record US share prices amid economic slump and social decay
- UK Court of Appeal sanctions mass disenfranchisement of Labour Party members
- Illinois community college drops racially segregated courses after public criticism
- Terror suspect killed in Canadian police-military operation
- Signs of slowdown in US auto industry
2016-08-15
- UFCW agrees to meager “pay raise” for Southern California grocery workers
- This week in history: August 15-21
- New York Times “human rights” warrior Nicholas Kristof demands military escalation in Syria
- Astronomers reveal most detailed map of galaxy distribution
- White House seeks to cover up Central American migrant crisis
- Families of New Zealand mine disaster victims seek justice
- The real issues in the 2016 US elections
- Wisconsin governor mobilizes National Guard after eruption of protests over police killing
- At least four dead, 18,000 rescued in historic flooding in Louisiana
- Chinese-South Korean tensions rise over THAAD anti-missile deployment
- Border and immigration workers strike at Australian airports and ports
- UK Labour leader Corbyn refuses to oppose denial of vote to party members
- Chinese power plant explosion kills 21
- International bond markets turn “surreal” as speculation grows
- Season 3 of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman: Hollywoo(d) and mental illness
- Swedish prosecutors to question Julian Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy
2016-08-16
- Saudi coalition airstrike on hospital in Yemen kills at least 11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump and Democrats compete on militarism and war
- Thai junta exploits bombings to clamp down on opposition
- Latest Australian “terrorism” arrests set dangerous precedents
- South Sudan government approves 4,000-strong UN force
- British Special Forces operating inside Syria
- Leaked files reveal brutal regime in Australia’s Nauru refugee camp
- The social roots of unrest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Federal report slams Washington DC Metrorail maintenance program
- Lufthansa sets a course for confrontation with pilots
- Louisiana: Seven dead, tens of thousands forced to flee as region braces for more flooding
- An interview with David Williams, author of Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
- As growth prospects fall, US markets hit record high
- UK: Dorset health services to be slashed to reduce deficit
- Canada’s defence minister tours Africa to lay groundwork for military intervention
2016-08-17
- The Score of War: A haunting documentary film on Ukraine
- SEP US vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth discusses the police killing in Milwaukee
- The Louisiana flooding—a failure of American capitalism
- Pacific island economies hit by global slump
- Aetna pullout highlights pro-corporate, anti-working class character of Obamacare
- German media steps up anti-Russian agitation
- Japan prepares to expand military role abroad
- Residents speak on the impact of education cuts in Boone County, West Virginia
- India: Kerala’s Stalinist-led government pursuing pro-business agenda
- UK inquest reveals brutality of immigrant detainee’s death
- Cohen of the Times on Rio Olympics: “I’m tired of reading about anger in the slums”
- Resident of West Virginia coal mining community speaks on economic crisis
- Australia becoming “geopolitical flashpoint” amid sharpening US-China rivalry
- Former UK professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson dies after being hit with Taser
- The New York Times whitewashes US imperialism in Middle East and contemplates ethnic cleansing
2016-08-18
- “War is never the solution”
- Thyssen-Krupp Steel works council meeting prepares job cuts in Germany
- Growing disquiet in Washington over Russian-Iranian actions in Syria
- Spain faces third general election in one year
- Australian university releases plans on arts college closure
- The 2016 elections and the crisis of American democracy
- Mobilize Minnesota workers behind Allina nurses
- SEP campaigns in Leechburg and Brackenridge, Pennsylvania
- Kremlin chief of staff dismissed amid continuing political turmoil in Russia
- Motive unclear after arrest in killing of imam and assistant in New York
- Affordable housing shortage in Detroit creates dire conditions for seniors
- Huntington, West Virginia sees 26 heroin overdoses in four hours
- Hacker group releases malware codes attributed to National Security Agency
- Australia: Greens select former military intelligence officer as parliamentarian
- Blue Cut fire quickly engulfs tens of thousands of acres in Southern California
- Egyptian dictator el-Sisi secures IMF loan and prepares onslaught against working class
- After brawl in town of Sisco, France launches campaign to ban burkini
- ATI workers speak to SEP campaigners
2016-08-19
- Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth condemns US-backed war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Verizon strikers remain victimized 12 weeks after end of strike
- Australian prime minister appeals for bipartisan budget cuts
- German report criticizing Turkey highlights growing tensions within NATO
- “Human rights” propaganda campaign paves way for military escalation in Syria
- Lopez Obrador reaches out to Mexican ruling elite
- Japan plans missile deployment in East China Sea
- Research highlights continued immiseration of British workers
- Immigrant mothers stage hunger strike in Pennsylvania
- UN admits role in 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti
- Green Party candidates at CNN town hall: Promoting illusions in the capitalist system
- The pseudo-left and identity politics: RIO solidarizes itself with “Gina-Lisa” and promotes law and order
- Fed divided on policy amid warnings over state of global bond markets
- West coast dockworkers’ union to discuss contract extension
- Cisco to cut 5,500 jobs, adding to wave of US tech layoffs
- Sexual assault accusations used to oust leader at Tor Project
2016-08-20
- Venezuela opens border with Colombia in order to alleviate growing social tensions
- Putin visits Crimea amid rising tensions with Ukraine
- Socialist Equality Party campaigners speak with Turkish workers in Berlin
- Spain: Pseudo-left concedes to right wing over street name changes
- The ruling class and the spectre of Leon Trotsky
- On the death of German historian Ernst Nolte
- Trump chairman Paul Manafort resigns amidst campaign shift to the right
- Decades-long cover-up of “black lung” among Australian miners
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- American jets scramble against Syrian aircraft bombing Kurdish rebels
- Full-time jobs and wages falling in Australia
- Indian PM Modi “plays Balochistan card” against Pakistan
- A portrait of photographer Robert Frank
- Government indifference in the midst of historic Louisiana flooding
- Britain’s Financial Times calls on anti-Corbyn plotters to prepare Labour split
- UK media denounces Corbyn’s refusal to support war with Russia
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting advances socialist program to fight government attacks
- Mounting evidence Canadian police summarily executed terror suspect
2016-08-22
- Mosquito-borne Zika virus spreads to Miami Beach, Florida
- SEP campaigners speak to residents in Washington, DC about social crisis and the US elections
- The anti-war novel re-emerges in American literature
- This week in history: August 22-28
- Suicide bombing kills 51 at wedding in Turkey
- Massive job cuts planned in South Korean shipbuilding industry
- UK Labour leader Corbyn silent on right-wing coup attempt at Sheffield rally
- Media, Democrats cover up Trump’s fascistic politics
- The Obamacare counterrevolution six years on
- New Zealand: WWI Home Front exhibition buries mass opposition to war
- Australian government seizes on NAPLAN test scores to justify budget cuts
- New video shows Los Angeles Police Department officers kill 56-year-old man in jail
- Workers and youth speak on Corbyn and the British Labour Party
- Syriza government oversees clampdown on refugee shelters in Greece
- In bid to quash anger, Chicago cops face firing over Laquan McDonald murder
- SEP election meeting in Berlin discusses war, nationalism after Brexit vote
- Minnesota nurses authorize open-ended strike against Allina
2016-08-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Divisions rise inside EU at summit between Germany, France and Italy
- US-South Korean war games inflame Asian tensions
- UK: Strike action at historic low, and unions work to keep it that way
- Appalling conditions in Greek refugee camps
- Over 1,800 extra-judicial killings under new Philippine government
- Twenty years since Clinton’s welfare “reform”
- North Korean official defects as US pressure on Pyongyang intensifies
- More anti-Russian propaganda from the New York Times
- Trade unions work to suppress German hospital strikes
- Majority of New York City residents cannot afford to buy their own homes
- International Socialist Organization promotes Jill Stein, Green Party as “anti-capitalist”
- Britain: Labour’s anti-Corbyn plotters plan rival parliamentary grouping
- Clinton campaigns among the millionaires and billionaires
- British Columbia Liberals impose anti-Chinese property transfer tax
- Mounting calls for Australian universities to slash enrolments
2016-08-24
- Volkswagen production halt affects almost 30,000 workers
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White on impact of “Welfare Reform”
- Louisiana flood victims speak out
- Twenty years since the Clintons gutted the federal welfare system
- New flashpoint in escalating war: Turkey shells ISIS and Kurdish forces in Syria
- Perspectives and Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- New York politicians maneuver to support charter schools
- Biden’s blank check to the Baltic states: US will wage war on Russia in your defense
- Nepal’s Maoist prime minister walks a tightrope between India and China
- Hanoi scales back Australian attempt to commemorate Vietnam War battle
- Obama offers pittance to flood victims in Louisiana
- Haiti: What the Clinton e-mails reveal about US election-rigging
- UK junior doctors defiance of government contract curtailed by BMA
- German population told to stockpile food in case of war
- Britain: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outlines policies for “wealth creation”
- German interior minister supports partial ban on the burqa
- Mining giant’s record loss highlights Australian economy’s reversal
2016-08-25
- Mass water shutoffs continue in Detroit, Michigan
- Spain: Pseudo-left Barcelona mayor persecutes migrant street vendors
- Biden meets with Erdogan, backs Turkish invasion of Syria
- “That little space between a smile and a tear”
- Pseudo-left line up behind efforts to fashion Labour as Britain’s “Syriza”
- Papua New Guinean landowners end blockade of major gas project
- Stop the German government’s preparations for war!
- Russian athletes barred from Paralympic Games
- North Korea tests submarine-launched missile
- The fight for socialism and the tasks of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality
- Flint residents describe conditions of ongoing water crisis
- Finland announces defence agreement with the US
- Devastating earthquake hits Italy
- Pfizer gobbles up cancer drug maker in $14 billion deal
- Judge tosses out Detroit Public Schools lawsuit against teacher “sickouts”
- French shipbuilder DCNS hit by massive data leak on Scorpene submarine
- Newly released emails reveal Clinton ties to CEOs, Persian Gulf despots
- Deutsche Bank whistleblower rejects reward, cites collusion between bank and regulators
2016-08-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkey expands invasion of Syria
- Bipartisan bidding war on budget cuts in Australia
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns at Detroit auto factory
- State trooper kills unarmed deaf man in North Carolina
- Air of crisis overhangs central bankers’ meeting
- Indiana study finds high rate of opiate addiction in newborns
- Death toll in Italian earthquake climbs to more than 250
- Australian “Heart Maps” reveal class divide
- Cross-party support for sweeping spy powers in New Zealand
- Ethiopian government kills 100 civilians as protests sweep country
- EpiPen maker Mylan’s other drug price hikes
- Clinton highlights Trump’s ultra-right ties to curry favor with establishment Republicans
- Chakrabarti report refutes claims of rampant anti-Semitism in British Labour Party
- Brazilian students return to the streets over classroom censorship laws
- Anthropoid: A film looks at 1942 assassination of Nazi chief Reinhard Heydrich
2016-08-27
- Fed chair lays out long-term scenario of economic stagnation
- West Virginia Supreme Court to weigh independent ballot access
- German chancellor demands loyalty from Turkish citizens in Germany
- Trudeau given hero’s welcome by Unifor bureaucrats
- Potentially Earth-like planet found in habitable zone of nearest star
- “Godfather” Biden visits Turkey
- Investigation accuses Mexican federal police of summary executions in May 2015 raid
- Merkel seeks to reorganise Europe
- For the unity of the working class in the United States and Latin America
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lanka: JVP leader expresses support for privatisation
- Join the IYSSE! Join the fight against war, inequality and the danger of dictatorship! Join the fight for socialism!
- Military prosecutor clears Israeli forces in 2014 Gaza war
- ILO report: Global youth unemployment to rise for first time in three years
- New Zealand: Thousands infected by contaminated water in Havelock North
- Britain: Labour’s National Executive extends purge of party membership
- Closure of Appleton, Wisconsin abortion clinic leaves state with two centers
2016-08-29
- US torture victim Abu Zubaydah given “hearing” at Guantanamo
- This week in history: August 29-September 4
- Turkish air strikes kill civilians in US-backed invasion of Syria
- French woman arrested, fined for wearing Muslim headscarf on Cannes beach
- Australia: Arrium steelworkers reject 10 percent pay cut
- Sarkozy launches French presidential bid based on anti-Muslim hysteria
- Former detention centre workers condemn Australia’s brutal refugee regime
- “Political art” in New York City this summer
- Polish PiS government encourages anti-Semitism
- Nothing revolutionary about Sanders’ “Our Revolution”
- Labour Party makes empty promises to New Zealand students
- London landlords renting out dangerous "floating shacks"
- Government of Finland imposes further austerity
- Cleveland teachers threaten walkout as school year begins
- Boston teachers face contract fight over job security, working conditions
2016-08-30
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- German vice chancellor says talks on US-EU free trade agreement have failed
- The New York Times and “disinformation”
- US pressures Turkey to curb attacks on Syrian Kurds
- The socioeconomic basis of identity politics: Inequality and the rise of an African American elite
- One-third of US counties will have only one Obamacare plan in 2017
- New Zealand unions intensify anti-immigrant campaign
- Ruling party wiped out in Australia’s Northern Territory election
- Libya’s Tobruk parliament refuses to recognize Western-backed government
- Professional football quarterback Colin Kaepernick protests US police killings
- The class essence of the Confederacy in the American Civil War
- Growing perplexity as central bankers confront permanent stagnation
- UK household debt, excluding mortgages, tops a third of a trillion pounds
- Despite Canada Post’s provocations, postal union opposes strike action
- Divisions grow over British withdrawal from the European Union
2016-08-31
- New Australian government seeks to impose deep cuts
- France demands end to trade talks with US amid rising US-EU tensions
- Southside With You: An insufferable account of the Obamas’ first date
- Spain’s public debt reaches record levels
- US deepens military ties with Sri Lanka
- Brazil’s impeachment crisis provokes split in Morenoite PSTU
- EpiPen price gouging: Capitalism and the US health care crisis
- Obama success story: Third biggest stock market boom since 1900
- Millennium Tower: Boston’s latest playground for the filthy rich
- Italian soldiers fighting in Libya
- US war planes and battleships to start using Indian bases
- Tens of millions of Indian workers to join one-day protest strike
- PSG election campaign: Anger at the government’s new civil defence guidelines
- Union blocks teachers’ strike as Clinton comes to Cleveland
- Canadian autoworkers overwhelmingly approve strike action
- UK: Corbyn, Brexit and the so-called progressive alliance
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Aurora, Illinois
- Taliban captures key Afghan district in fierce fighting
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